I have always wondered at the dominance of Photoshop . Almost every web designer, graphic designer, usability engineer has worked on it , almost making it an indispensable tool . However, the price tag for the software makes it prohibitive for startups to use it. Recently I have noticed a good open source software Gimp which has almost all the features of Photoshop. My take on the tool: Easy to install- prereq is gtk+, comes in linux and windows flavors UI is neat, clean and user friendly ( Unlike the commonly held notion of any open source work) Easy to pick and choose the features for a starter.

An inspiring story of an entrepreneur Jignesh shah who has made it big in the commodities market exchange. Its a story of the transformation of a technology company in to a successful trading exchange What is he betting on : “We are getting into mobile-based digital transactions for micro credit; it is a trillion dollar market. It will capture all low-end transactions, mobilising small money at a quarter of the cost.

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When Morgan Freeman says “Sometimes people get Insititutionalized” in the movie “Shawshank’s Redemption”, this is what he means : Close your eyes and imagine a coral reef forming slowly around a tiny tropical island. The coral polyps are small and soft at the start — like your comfortable ways of doing things — but they’re steadily solidifying into a massive wall of rock, shutting off the open sea. Inside the reef, the water’s shallow, calm and safe.

When Morgan Freeman says “Sometimes people get Insititutionalized” in the movie “Shawshank’s Redemption”, this is what he means : Close your eyes and imagine a coral reef forming slowly around a tiny tropical island. The coral polyps are small and soft at the start — like your comfortable ways of doing things — but they’re steadily solidifying into a massive wall of rock, shutting off the open sea. Inside the reef, the water’s shallow, calm and safe.